A pharmacist who initially thought that the intense period was due to her recent Covid vaccine, she said she was shocked to discover it was actually a symptom of a rare form of leukemia.
Victoria Lang, 30, from Banton in North Lanarkshire, attributed her “abnormal” bleeding last March to the fact that she had had the Covid vaccine two days earlierafter hearing on the news that the vaccine “may affect your period.”
But when the heavy bleeding continued, Victoria knew “something was wrong” and visited her GP, who ran some blood tests and then told her she would need to be admitted to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
A consultant told her he thought it was likely to be cancer and after more tests, Victoria was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemiaone rare form that requires immediate treatment.
The shocked 30-year-old passed 42 days in the hospital and stated that she might not have noticed the condition if she had not noticed that her period was heavier than usual. Now he wants to warn others about the symptoms associated with the disease.
The symptoms that indicated that this is not an ordinary period
According to Daily Mail, the young pharmacist stated that “I had a normal period in February, but after March I started to bleed very badly and I knew it was an abnormal period”, adding that “Two days after I had the Covid booster I started to bleed and it was horrible. I know what is normal for me and what my period is like and this was crazy. The blood was flowing, it was like someone turned on a faucet.”
Victoria said among other things that because of the many stories then in the news that vaccines Covid “they might mess up your period,” she decided to leave it for 24 hours to see if the bleeding would stop. However, when it continued she decided to call her doctor.
“At the time I had a few bruises on my knee and shoulder but they were from things I could explain so no alarms went off. But the bruises took a long time to heal properly.”
After undergoing blood tests, admitted to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where a consultant told her they thought it was probably leukemia. Victoria was kept in the intensive care unit overnight before being transferred to Beatson Cancer Center. A bone marrow sample later confirmed her diagnosis and she spent six weeks in hospital.
Recalling her experience, the 30-year-old continued: ‘After my blood was drawn I went to work the next day and my GP rang to say all my blood tests were very low and he would have to admit me at the hospital. At that moment I knew something was wrong and that I had leukemia in my head. I wasn’t sick or really had any of the symptoms so it was a shock. I was transferred to the Beatson Cancer Center and spent 42 days there. I gained about a stone in fluid weight and went up a dress size in just three weeks. I was left with really bad stretch marks, you’d think I’d had twins, but my skin couldn’t take it.”
Victoria is now in remission and having regular periods again, but she wants to warn others about the symptoms of the disease.
“I would tell people to trust their gut, you know what’s normal for your body. I knew my period wasn’t right and if I hadn’t called the doctors to discuss it then I might not have been diagnosed so quickly.”
Source: News Beast
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